contact: frances at francesmccue.com.

Services


Manuscript reading, developmental editing and recommendations
Mentoring individual writers
Readings and lectures on Richard Hugo, essay writing, poetry
Consulting on Literary Events production and fundraising
Creative instigation of projects
Evaluating MFA programs and literary arts organizations
Interim leadership positions in arts and culture organizations

 


A Few Current Projects

Developmental editing for a poet who was in Camp Minidoka, a World War II American internment camp for Americans of Japanese ancestry. We are editing, ordering and arranging her poems of witness.

Working as a dramaturge for composer Richard Peaslee on his libretto of Moby Dick.

Creating a comic website for the "overparenting" generation. I am the poet in a trio with a psychologist and a geographer who study, observe and celebrate the lives of children and parents from different perspectives. Together, we’ve been exploring how today’s American children have fewer opportunities to play in non-governed spaces and non-consumerist atmospheres. By describing ourselves and others caught up in these trends, we hope to raise questions, incite conversations, and inspire change. See: topthisparenting dot com.